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Kate Bridges

Autor/a de The Surgeon

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Obres de Kate Bridges

The Surgeon (2003) 75 exemplars
The Proposition (2004) 47 exemplars
The Engagement (2004) 43 exemplars
The Bachelor (2005) 41 exemplars
Mail-Order Marriages (2010) 39 exemplars
Klondike Doctor (2007) 39 exemplars
Klondike Wedding (2007) 38 exemplars
The Commander (2006) 38 exemplars
Luke's Runaway Bride (2002) 37 exemplars
Frontier Christmas (3-in-1) (2003) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
The Doctor's Homecoming (2002) 31 exemplars
Klondike Fever (2008) 30 exemplars
Wanted in Alaska (2009) 30 exemplars
The Midwife's Secret (2003) 29 exemplars
Alaskan Renegade (2009) 28 exemplars

Obres associades

Western Weddings (Anthology 3-in-1) (2008) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars

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Altres noms
Maddison, Kate
Data de naixement
1959
Nacionalitat
Canada
Llocs de residència
Ontario, Canada
Alberta, Canada
Biografia breu
Kate Bridges was born on 1959, growing up in the pretty farmland of Ontario, Canada, then later the Alberta prairies, she developed a love for wide-open spaces, country sunshine and the Rocky Mountains.

Prior to being a full-time writer of historical romance novels—Canadian and American Westerns—Kate worked for years as a pediatric intensive-care nurse; she often includes medical adventure in her stories. Later she studied architecture and interior design, landing a job as a researcher for a television design program. Booking guests from around the world and coming up with topics of interest to viewers, Kate now uses those research skills to pen her own novels.

An award-winning and USA Today bestselling author, Kate Bridges has been published since 2002. Her first Mountie novel, The Surgeon, was nominated for Best Western of the Year by Romantic Times magazine, and The Engagement was short-listed for Best Hero of the Year. Several of her novels received the magazine’s Best Hero of the Month honor, and others were chosen as Top Picks! and Buried Treasure of the Year on reader Web sites. Frontier Christmas hit the USA Today bestseller list. Her books have been translated into nine languages and are sold worldwide. In Canada, her novels are being studied in over a dozen colleges in commercial-fiction writing courses.

Married, Kate had a child. In her spare time, she enjoys going to movies, studying comedy, recreational flying with her husband and exploring the great Canadian wild. She’s currently writing a series set during the Klondike Gold Rush, and visited the Yukon and Alaska for research. She had fun panning for gold.

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finished book, but decided to not finish series -- a little too 'clean' for me.
 
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ckelship | Oct 10, 2021 |
Mountie series. Virginia moved west to study medicine with her uncle and marry the brother of her former fiancé. But then Zack calls off the wedding, when he thinks she's being targeted by an outlaw gang. He moves her to the Mountie fort to protect her life, but he can't protect his heart.
 
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nancynova | Jun 5, 2016 |
Genevieve travels to the Klondike region to marry Joshua, an friend she hasn't seen for years. But he's away, panning for gold, so his Mountie friend, Luke is the proxy….but not quite. The judge keels over just after the ceremony and Luke's name is on the marriage license. And now they're in quarantine for measles - or is it really a murderer on the loose?
 
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nancynova | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 2, 2016 |
Simon is working undercover as a jewel thief as he tries to find out where the man hid the loot from his last heist. Things are going great until he discovers that Jerrod had sent away for a mail-order bride. He can't blow his cover, so he has to go along with it until he can figure out what to do. Natasha is a victim of the Great Chicago Fire and has become a mail-order bride to start a new life. She liked everything she found out about Jerrod in the letters that they exchanged. But when she arrived in Wyoming he is different than what she expected.

Simon is a loner. His father walked out when he was six, his mother had drunk herself to death by the time he was eight. He survived on his own from that point on. He doesn't get involved in relationships, believing that he brings nothing but trouble to those around him. He feels that he is responsible for the deaths of his two friends and is determined to find the missing loot. Simon is not happy to find out about the expected bride, and initially plans to simply send her back where she came from. Being a less than trusting man, he worries that she might be involved in the robberies and decides to keep her around until he can find out. He runs into a problem right away in that he is drawn to her in a way he's never felt before. He wants to believe that she is innocent, but some things she says make him think that she is involved. He has enough of a conscience that he doesn't want to marry Natasha under false pretenses, but it soon becomes obvious that he won't have a choice. In spite of his belief in her guilt, he doesn't want her hurt so he does what he can to protect her. Simon spends a lot of time going back and forth about her guilt. He starts to not trust himself because his head and his heart believe different things. Simon also senses the same sort of loneliness in Natasha that he feels himself which just adds to his confusion. In the end, he realizes the depth of his feelings, but he isn't sure that Natasha will forgive him for his deceptions.

Natasha had lost almost everything in the Great Fire. Desperate for a new start she advertised as a mail-order bride. She picked Jerrod because, like her, he was in the jewelry business. She had spent years working for her grandfather and is very knowledgeable about many facets of the business. After months of correspondence she feels that Jerrod is the one she can have the best relationship with. She heads to Wyoming with a heart full of hope for her future. When she meets him, he seems to be far more distant emotionally than he was in his letters. He is also dragging his feet on having the actual wedding. She is attracted to him, and uses some of the things she learned from other women in Chicago to try to show him how she feels. She also frequently gets the feeling that he is judging her for something she knows nothing about. Natasha is determined to settle in to her new life in Wyoming and tries to pin him down on his feelings about her helping in his jewelry business. She shows him her abilities when she assists a couple and prevents them from buying fake jewels. As the days go on she falls more for him and is thrilled when they finally marry, only to be hurt and furious when she discovers his deception. She has to decide if she can forgive him enough to let her love for him win out.

I enjoyed the mystery part of the story as Simon uses his undercover persona to try to find the missing loot. It was interesting to see the way that he had to adjust his plans when Natasha arrived. While his trust issues had a lot to do with his suspicions about her, it was also easy to see why he was concerned. I liked seeing the way that he used misdirection to keep from giving away the fact that he wasn't Jerrod. I really liked the way that he was able to get Natasha to help him, even though he knew he had really screwed up with her. The final showdown was very good.
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scoutmomskf | Jun 8, 2014 |

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Membres
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
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